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by EncomLab 2y ago
It can't possibly be due to the fact that the Vice President is the head of the National Space Council and all of this could be easily politicized - could it? Loss of the craft and/or loss of the crew would be a huge propaganda w
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by EncomLab 2y ago
It is deeply flawed - all analogies are to some extent or another - the point still correlates with observable facts. Both systems require energy to function, removal of energy causes both systems to stop producing observable functions, an
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Sorry - it is precisely a "a loose arbitrarily defined amalgamation of chemicals and electrical signals" - in the same way that data in a computer is just a bunch of voltages and currents. If I load the notes to a song into RAM,
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by EncomLab 2y ago
You know how fast drone legislation was passed? That's the power of the Commercial Aviation sector when it feels threatened. Now imagine how they would react if somehow an affordable aircraft that made flying "easy" hit the
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Have you heard of occam's razor? Time will tell - in the meantime what you chose to believe and what I chose to believe are equally worthless opinions.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Are you seriously comparing a payment processor to an airplane manufacturer? Are you aware that Stripe received VC funding from Musk, Thiel and Sequoia in order to keep it from competing with PayPal and to provide a second-source provider t
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Have you considered that a significant number of companies that are presented - in good faith - as revolutionary startups that will open aviation to the masses are just investment schemes? I understand that they are pushing forward with th
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by EncomLab 2y ago
You can't inject reason into a conversation that is largely defined by $$. GA is an incredibly tiny market - faa.gov has the current active non-student pilot population in the US as less than 500k. The survival of the companies that
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by EncomLab 2y ago
This "armchair critic" was an engineer at VisionAire Corp. in the late 90's and watched a truly innovative aircraft and company be consumed by the red tape and outright corporate protectionism of the regulatory bureaucracy.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
One of my top 5 favorite books of all time - the audiobook version on audible is excellent as well. A lost world - and we are all worse off for it.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Great ideas - all destined to wither and die on the vine of certification and regulatory approval. A certified Dynon autopilot for a Cessna 172 starts at $26k just for the components - you expect a similar amount for installation and then
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by EncomLab 2y ago
My own little proof of this is that my dog has gone from sleeping on the stairway landing, to sleeping by the bedroom door, to sleeping next to the bed, to sleeping under my side of the bed. As he has aged and lost flexibility and sensory
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by EncomLab 2y ago
I stand with Turing Award winner Alan Kay - "The real sciences - chemistry, physics, geography - don't have "science" in their names. Hobbies aspiring to be sciences do." and MIT MacVicar Fellow Hal Abelson "Co
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by EncomLab 2y ago
In no way diminishes his accomplishments!
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by EncomLab 2y ago
John Young was not one of the Mercury seven - so "almost" every one.
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Early MIT Video of Megan Smith -Apple/General Magic/Google/US CTO(youtube.com)
2 points by EncomLab 2y ago|1 comments
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Was happily surprised while watching this video to see Megan Smith at the 1:33 mark! Megan went on to join Apple, become a founding member of General Magic, landed at Google and was named the 3rd CTO of the US under President Obama. It&#x2
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by EncomLab 2y ago
They are cameras installed by a private company - Flock Safety - but paid for by uni/gov. In theory they data warehouse the license plate numbers and "vehicle characteristics" of every vehicle that drives by each camera, but
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by EncomLab 2y ago
I live in a mid/upper middle class ex-urb that is basically Mayberry - our police Facebook page literally has posts like "Angie your Lab got out again, she's at the station" with a picture of the dog sitting at the chief
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by EncomLab 2y ago
"Reasoning" implies the extrapolation of information - not the mechanical generation of a fixed output based on known inputs. No one would claim that a set of gears is "reasoning" but the logic gate is as fixed in it&#x
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by EncomLab 2y ago
For true reasoning you really need to introduce the ability for the circuit to intentionally decide to do something different that is not just a random selection or hallucination - otherwise we are just saying that state machines "reas
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Under this definition an 74LS21 AND gate is reasoning - it has specific circuits that correspond to concepts, and it uses that network to determine an output based on the input. Seems pretty overly broad - we run back into the issue of say
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by EncomLab 2y ago
In no way does "Turing Completeness" imply the ability to reason - I mean it's like arguing that a nightlight "reasons" about if it is dark out or not.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Does anyone remember the "Mad Libs" games - you fill out a form with blanks for "verb", "noun", "adjective", etc - then on the next page you fill in the words from the form to create a silly story. T
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by EncomLab 2y ago
I've flown hundreds of hours using single-surface hang-gliders that effectively have little to no "flat plate" effect, and they make huge amounts of very draggy, slow speed lift. I've flown hundreds of hours using doubl
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Which is why going after the Sackler's is about politics and not about the law.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Norbert Wiener had this all figured out 70 years ago - everything old is new again!
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Terminal Madness(youtube.com)
1 points by EncomLab 2y ago|0 comments
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Ken is a treasure - he's a walking encyclopedia of all things electronic!
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by EncomLab 2y ago
It's always going to be difficult to compare a carbon based, ion mediated, indirectly connected, reconfigurable network of neurons to a silicon based, voltage mediated, directly connected, fixed configuration transistors. The analogy w

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